RE: Steem: Scalability before scaling
A noob with coming on four years experience.
Glad my name isn't four years experience
Crossposting is just getting started and likely going to get abused y some. However, for example if I find content I really want to reward as well as I can, I can crosspost it into a community and it will count as "my own" meaning it will get the benefit of my autos. However, 90% will go to the original author, 5% to me for the share, 5% to the community it is crossposted to. That incentivizes sharing beyond the curation mechanism for those who do have a following, but not a lot of SP.
For those who abuse it (I will likely say there will be a few large accounts crossposting their alt content to their own to doubledip), they will get flagged and hopefully lose their autovoters trust. That is a good thing too. I won't crosspost my own unless there is some very good reason to, but, I want people to know that if I do crosspost someone else's content, they can trust it is worthy of at least the rewards they would give me.
For those who are short of content, they can bump other people a lot and get them reward and exposure to new communities and eyes and still take a small slice for themselves as well as get some support for the communities they enjoy. The feature is evolving and there is a long way to go.
Shortly after I came here I had a look at my feed, because that's what I always do, and someone had published a post about a community, then minutes later cross posted that post into the actual community they were writing about. Of course both posts had nearly the same amount of value. Of course the second one was slightly lower because the first instance sucked out some of that precious voting power. Needless to say, that's when I shut this off and went for a walk.
I read your post about this. There are things I can add in the 'pro' department, and quite a few for the 'con' section. I want to keep much of this to myself though and in time I'll should be able to develop a rational stance. I don't want to be the guy yelling at the clouds, especially if there's something I've missed.
There are quite a few well-intentioned folk who didn't realize what was going to happen when they cross-posted, they thought it was just going to appear in the community, not create a new post. Learning curve issues.
Definitely. However, this is the first iteration and given the chance to evolve, it might be great. Or not, but we have suffered worse perhaps :)
I've come to realize a lot of folks made a few innocent mistakes. We have to learn somehow. And honestly, if there are actual, serious, problems... I think it's fair to say we all got sick of that long ago and won't wait so long to address them. This won't be another paid votes fiasco.
I m hoping that for those who do abuse it, there will be swift consequences. I am fine to let the first error ride :)
Ya man, just be cool.